> Any enterprise company should have a policy ensuring SSD destruction.
Why? Drives should already be encrypted, at which point you just lose the key and it's unrecoverable.
Why? Drives should already be encrypted, at which point you just lose the key and it's unrecoverable.
Physical destruction is cheap and effective insurance against this.
You don't have to worry about IT forgetting to wipe a drive or something.
You have a policy that says we take the SSD out before sending it to the reseller/donating.
A used SSD is a bad idea anyway, everything else on a laptop can more or less work indefinitely
Using a used SSD( Refurbished assuming direct from manufacturer might be ok) feels like digging though someone else's stuff.
Maybe they cleaned it, maybe they left business docs or other sensitive data. The risk to reward is too great.
Look at the SMART stats, format the drive, and install your OS. For people shopping laptops under $250, that seems like a better path than a new SSD.
If you care at all about data leaks, there's literally no reason to not destroy decomissioned frives and a lot of very real potential risks in not destroying it.
It may be "nicer" to a hypothetical second user, but you don't care about them and new drives are dirt cheap anyway.
I don't trust HP firmware to wake the laptop from sleep in one attempt, let alone trust them to securely store their telemetry (that they won't let me see directly).
> BitLocker essentially trusts self-encrypted drives to do their job, and defaults to the drive”s hardware encryption.
But that was 2018; the result was that in 2019 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/september-24-2019-... happened:
> Changes the default setting for BitLocker when encrypting a self-encrypting hard drive. Now, the default is to use software encryption for newly encrypted drives. For existing drives, the type of encryption will not change.
And in any event, I would tend to argue that the matter of reselling is secondary: The problem is that the affected disks are effectively unencrypted, and that's a problem regardless. If your disks are properly encrypted, then reselling them should be safe.